Getting all branches with JGit

Question

How can I get all branches in a repository with JGit? Let's take an example repository. As we can see, it has 5 branches.
Here I found this example:

int c = 0;
List<Ref> call = new Git(repository).branchList().call();
for (Ref ref : call) {
    System.out.println("Branch: " + ref + " " + ref.getName() + " "
            + ref.getObjectId().getName());
    c++;
}
System.out.println("Number of branches: " + c);

But all I get is this:

Branch: Ref[refs/heads/master=d766675da9e6bf72f09f320a92b48fa529ffefdc] refs/heads/master d766675da9e6bf72f09f320a92b48fa529ffefdc
Number of branches: 1
Branch: master

Answer 1

If it is the remote branches that you are missing, you have to set the ListMode of the ListBranchCommand to ALL or REMOTE. By default, the command returns only local branches.

new Git(repository).branchList().setListMode(ListMode.ALL).call();